Monday, July 26, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Exodus 32:15-24, 30-34

¹⁵And Moses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables of the testimony in his hand, written on both sides, ¹⁶And made by the work of God: the writing also of God was graven in the tables. ¹⁷And Josue hearing the noise of the people shouting, said to Moses: The noise of battle is heard in the camp. ¹⁸But he answered: It is not the cry of men encouraging to fight, nor the shout of men compelling to flee: but I hear the voice of singers. ¹⁹And when he came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf, and the dances: and being very angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and broke them at the foot of the mount: ²⁰And laying hold of the calf which they had made, he burnt it, and beat it to powder, which he strowed into water, and gave thereof to the children of Israel to drink. ²¹And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin? ²²And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended: for thou knowest this people, that they are prone to evil. ²³They said to me: Make us gods, that may go before us: for as to this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is befallen him. ²⁴And I said to them: Which of you hath any gold? and they took and brought it to me: and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came out.

³⁰And when the next day was come, Moses spoke to the people: You have sinned a very great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any means I may be able to entreat him for your crime. ³¹And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass, ³²Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written. ³³And the Lord answered him: He that hath sinned against me, him will I strike out of my book: ³⁴But go thou, and lead this people whither I have told thee: my angel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this sin also of theirs.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 105:19-23 (Psalm 106 at Mass)

¹⁹They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing. ²⁰And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass. ²¹They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt, ²²Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea. ²³And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 13:31-35

³¹Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field. ³²Which is the least indeed of all seeds; but when it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof. ³³Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened. ³⁴All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them. ³⁵That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.